Refugee Support Europe

We want to see a world where all refugees can lead a life with dignity. 
 
We help refugees rebuild their lives by providing short-term, essential aid with dignity. We like to think of what we do as building communities of support.
 
Dignity defines everything we do. It’s about respecting people as individuals, giving them choices and offering a bit of normality. It also makes volunteering much more rewarding and creative. For example, we set up ‘free shops’ where refugees can choose what they want. We designed a “money” system where all of the food and hygiene items are individually “priced” with points and each family is allocated an amount of points to spend.
 
Refugee Support Europe started operating in one of the Greek Government’s official Refugee Camps in Alexandreia in April 2016. We worked there and on seven other refugee camps in Greece for over 3 years. We have also supported a large unofficial camps of Rohingya in Bangladesh and Central Americans in Mexico. We created and run a Dignity Centre in Nicosia city centre in Cyprus since 2019 and opened another in Chisinau Moldova in 2022 .
 
How do we build communities of support?
 
Volunteers, professionally managed, are at the very heart of what we do so we design services that enable anyone who cares the opportunity to make a difference to refugee lives the moment they decide to help. We now have a global community of 1500+ helpers who know that they get back just as much as they put in. We celebrate their contribution.
 
We work closely with the UN Refugee Agency, official bodies and other NGOs so that we can build on what each are doing and avoid duplication.
 
We buy all we can from local businesses to build links with the local community so they are also part of our supportive network.
 
Want to get a glimse of the project? Check out this video for the project in Moldova & this video for the project in Cyprus.